Bullets > Knife: I know this is a hard concept to handle in Battlefield considering Knifing being OP (BF2), unfair (2142), and both (BFBC2). In Battlefield 3, if you come at a guy with a knife and he can shoot at you, suppression will take effect and the knife target lock does not work in suppressed mod. If you were trying to forward knife a guy for whatever reason and it didn't work, it was not bugged.

Second scenario is if you see a friend get put in the hold position prior to the actually throat slitting, you can shot the enemy off of your buddy and save him some embarrassment. This is kinda hard to pull off if both are standing as the animation for a standing knife kill is about 1.25 seconds (guessing). The animation for pulling someone from prone or crouching addes about another 1.5 seconds. You now know that you can save your friends as I have done it twice, so please don't stand there and watch me die before you shoot the guy.

What does this mean. People like Kurgan, TimSad, and other knife happy people will have to stop. BF3 favors people like me who only shank. As I am bias I will only suggest you use the knife to either embarrass a specific person, or just to be stealthy in a situation.

P.S. Chat works for wounded people, not dead people. So if you stab a guy, he will not be able to text chat to his buddies about their impending ownage.

Good point I guess. Being able to toss health or ammo from cover is nice and not so badly "abusable" tho.

Anyone have any comments on knifing? I guess I won't worry about it too much until I see how the final is.

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I found to be buggy for me,I use num pad 1 key for melee and i have to hit it twice for the animation of dog tags to kick in.Also notice a slight stutter when the animation kicked in,I just left as a beta bug that is probably already fixed.

3MD, we've been around since the BF1942 days, we follow the typical clan organization using military ranks but its a fairly loose and laid back group. Were a legal entity who is also hosting the first Tactical Gaming Convention in 2012, this will be attended by game developers and groups in the community.

Lot of prior, and current military and the occasional 16-40 year old gamer just hangin out playing ArmA2 and should have a 0-Day BF3 server... If your interested in a BF3 spot PM me on here, I'm in charge of recruiting there. We also offer positions within the group that are PAID POSITIONS.. Not talking big bucks, but were organized enough that we do compensate the people who put time in.

Some people don't know how easy it is to overclock these days.
Hell, when I got back into gaming I thought you still had to use black magic and beseech the Dark Lord in order to overclock.
It is so much easier now.

Why would you bother with the hardware you have in your sig if you are not willing/game enough to OC a little. Seems like a waste of money to me.

You won't wreck shit by simply changing a cpu multiplier or increasing your nb freq. Its voltage and hence more heat that kills shit. You can OC a X6 processor up to at least 3.7ghz without any voltage increases.

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I just ordered the Thermaltake Frio this morning and I plan on doing some research into overclocking. You're totally right. I have the board and processor for it, and it does sound to me like there might be some serious bottlebecking going on, or perhaps just overheating, either way it couldn't hurt. Once I get this cooler installed I'll report back with my results.. I hope they're positive results!

I vote in favor of throwing C4 20-30 feet with practice. I think in BC2 throwing C4 was completely legit. It wasnt the easiest thing to do in the game and being able to rain explosives on a vehicle from a rooftop was fun.

I vote in favor of throwing C4 20-30 feet with practice. I think in BC2 throwing C4 was completely legit. It wasnt the easiest thing to do in the game and being able to rain explosives on a vehicle from a rooftop was fun.

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They got rid of that in bf2 with a patch if I remember correctly because it was unbelievably annoying.

I just ordered the Thermaltake Frio this morning and I plan on doing some research into overclocking. You're totally right. I have the board and processor for it, and it does sound to me like there might be some serious bottlebecking going on, or perhaps just overheating, either way it couldn't hurt. Once I get this cooler installed I'll report back with my results.. I hope they're positive results!

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I'm running the Frio on the same chip and a microATX and have it clocked @ 3.7 and runs nice and cool. With the board I have I won't push it any highers and smoke vrm's.

using a knife to cut through a fence etc the animation goes takes a second or 2 for the enviroment to respond to said action let you through lol

i do like the fact you have to crouch to knife a prone enemy, but it is rather stupid to be right behind someone knife them 3-4-5 times and have it not take, even when standing right on top of them,

just feels slow and cumbersome, I like what they brought to the table in terms of ideas dont like how its currently executed.

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Ugh.. knifing fences has gotten me killed in this beta so many times... Fences in general seemed buggy, but when you knife one and it only opens up a tiny hole and your the dumbass sitting there trying to find the perfect spot to spam spacebar and crawl thru... Or when cutdown fences can only be run thru if you go right in the middle or spam spacebar... ugh